Bigfoot Meets the Thing

Bigfoot Meets the Thing
Bigfoot gets affectionate with a Bigfoot-disguised Stretch.
Premiere date	September 8, 1979
Run time	11:38
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Bigfoot Meets the Thing" is the first episode (part two) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on September 8, 1979 on NBC.

Stretch plays a prank on Ronald by dressing up as Bigfoot, which gets the attention of a real, lonely Bigfoot looking for love.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
The Thing	Joe Baker
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
Turkey	Michael Sheehan
Stretch	Unavailable
Ronald's father
Bigfoot	Unavailable

Organizations

• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Harkness residence
    • North Woods
      • Ronald's father's chalet
      • Chickadee Resort Motel
    • Desmon's Fried Chicken (logo)

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Ronald's car
• Yancy Street Gang's motorcycles

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 8, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• Turkey's eyes become visible in this episode.

Errors

• Benjy's depressed about being the Thing, as if this is a body he's trapped in when he still has his human body to go back to in an instant. It's never explained why he has this responsibility to begin with, so there's no reason to feel sympathetic for the guy.
• What is Benjy's motivation for going to a chalet with two snobbish classmates that only like to ridicule him? If it's because of Kelly, then this seems weird, because she's several years younger than he is. Although this may be partly a favor to her father, Professor Harkness.
• Despite the name of the episode, the Thing has hardly any interaction with Bigfoot.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Warner Bros. owns the show, while Disney owns the characters, making it difficult to release this episode onto DVD.